USW Alerts Members to Swine Flu Threats and Prevention
The United Steelworkers (USW) today (April 29, 2009) announced plans to educate its members and their families about how to minimize their risk of being infected by the current outbreak of the Swine Flu, signs and symptoms of possible infection, and what employers should be doing now to prevent exposure in workplace settings. USW International Vice ...... more

First USW/IP Joint Health and Safety Conference Considered a Success
For the first time ever, our union held a joint health and safety conference with IP this past fall. Members had a chance to discuss the hazards in their workplace and develop strategies to address the problems. The conference, held in Birmingham, Ala., had a union-only session on Sept. 16 and a joint labor/management session on Sept. 17. Attending ...... more

2008 Health Safety and Environment Conference Videos
Videos of the 2008 Health Safety and Environment Conference are now online, including USW President, Leo W. Gerard addressing the delegates, participants and health and safety officials. During President Gerard's speech he relates his personal experiences with health and safety and goes on to talk on how far we have come to protect workers. He also ...... more

USW Death Investigation Leads to Equipment Redesign
On August 24, 2004, Michael J. Carney lost his life saving a coworker from being struck at the Allegheny Ludlum’s Vandergrift plant in Pennsylvania. After an investigation by United Steelworkers (USW) Health, Safety and Environment department and USW Local 1138, the remote control crane box was found to be defective. A screw from the battery compartment ...... more

Beyond Texas City
The full report is online. Click here to download the report in PDF Format. . Sign up for our email list to keep up to date with critical USW Health, Safety & Environment issues. We encourage all people concerned with this issue who run websites to link here, to do so insert the following code into your page: On January 16th the Baker Panel Report ...... more

Defective Products, Recalls and Alerts
The first edition of CPSC's new monthly e-newsletter, "The Safety Review," is now available. You can download it at http://www.cpsc.gov.cpscpub/pubs/tsr0508.pdf "The Safety Review" is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Viewing this publication requries the free Adobe Acrobat (tm) Reader. You can download the Reader through ...... more

Concerns -- News & Commentary
We will add snippets of news and commentary on items that should be of interest. If you would like to submit an article for inclusion, mailto:safety@usw.org?subject=Concerns--News & Commentary. 2006 March 1 - OSHA Issues Final Standard on Hexavalent Chromium - [February 28, 2006] Workplace Rules on Chromium Intake Revised - "The Labor Department reduces ...... more

Concerns -- Topics & Action Reports
Here are some current topics of concern and reports on actions taken addressing these issues that will be of interest. If you would like to submit an article for inclusion or have items of concern, mailto:safety@usw.org?subject=Concerns--Topics & Activity Reports. NIOSH INTERIM NANO GUIDANCE COMMENTS (FINAL) - Comments on the NIOSH Interim Guidance ...... more

Deadly Summer for 13 Miners
from Confined Space @ TPH, Occupational Health & Safety, Regulation by cmonforton June and July 2007 has been a dangerous and deadly ones for 13 U.S. miners, and their families and co-workers left behind. So far this summer, 6 mine workers have died at metal mining operations, 4 workers employed at stone quarries and 3 coal miners. These 11 men ...... more

United Steelworkers Launches Training Guides to Industry
The United Steelworkers announced the launching of our new web site called “United Steelworkers Training Guides to Industry.” This web site was designed by the Tony Mazzocchi Center for our members in the basic steel industry and others who are interested in hazard recognition and control in basic steel. This project was done with the help of funding ...... more

NYCosh Publishes Important New Fact Sheet on 9/11 Illnesses
Friday, December 22, 2006 NYCOSH, in collaboration with New York Disaster Interfaith Services and United Church of Christ Disaster Response Ministries has just published a new fact sheet urging all workers and volunteers who did rescue, recovery , or cleanup work to REGISTER BY AUGUST 14, 2007 to preserve your right to medical care and compensation ...... more

Hanford USW Member Appointed to Radiation Advisory Board
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell Washington For Immediate Release December 21, 2006 Contact: Press Office, (202) 224-8277 Hanford Worker, Nominated by Cantwell, To Be Appointed to Top National Occupational Safety and Health Panel Tri-Cities resident named to NIOSH Advisory Board, will provide nuclear worker’s perspective on health, workers’ compensation ...... more

News Archives
In our continueing goal to keep our site updated and user-friendly, we have archived the stories previously on the left side of the page on to this one. USW Condemns EPA Cover-up MSHA Diesel Rule a Partial Victory for Underground Miners OSHA Citations Confirm Cognis Conditions Unsafe USW Selects Glenn Erwin for BP Independent Panel Bush Administration ...... more